| TN | HB2180 | Pass | As introduced, expands student eligibility for a Tennessee future teacher scholarship to include students enrolled in an approved educator preparation program at Western Governors University. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB2323 | Pass | As introduced, increases the penalty for a third or subsequent domestic assault conviction from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony; upgrades the offense classification for certain qualifying misdemeanor offenses to a Class E felony upon a defe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB2466 | Pass | As introduced, authorizes the bureau to provide a defendant with a certified copy of an order expunging the public records of a criminal offense following the dismissal of charges entered on behalf of the defendant; allows the bureau to charge a reas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB1881 | Pass | As introduced, increases the penalty for assault against a law enforcement officer from a Class A misdemeanor with a mandatory minimum 30-day sentence and $5,000 fine to a Class E felony with a mandatory minimum 60-day sentence and $10,000 fine. - Am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB2426 | Pass | As introduced, reduces from 30 to 21 days, the period by which a local government building official must, after a building permit is issued, mail to the county tax collection official the form upon which the permit applicant acknowledges the privileg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB2190 | Pass | As introduced, changes from three to four the number of members the governor is authorized to appoint to an enrolling board in each county to act in lieu of the county assessor for purposes of enrolling county residents in the state militia. - Amends...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB2326 | Pass | As introduced, changes, from 10 days to 10 business days, the maximum amount of time the commissioner of education can suspend schools in a year when the commissioner requires all teachers to attend county institutes or educational meetings. - Amends...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB2054 | Pass | As introduced, increases from 1,500 to 5,000 the number of acres of land that may be placed within one property tax jurisdiction for purposes of classification and assessment as agricultural, forest, or open space land; increases from 1,500 to 5,000 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB2814 | Pass | As introduced, raises the penalty for the offense of drag racing from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB2553 | Pass | As introduced, restricts certain foreign investments in land located within this state through the creation of two separate prohibitions, one that restricts a prohibited foreign-party-controlled business from acquiring real property and another that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB2774 | Pass | As introduced, requires the review of executive branch agency policies and spending as it relates to illegal immigration; requires a report to be compiled and delivered to the governor and the speakers of the senate and house of representatives regar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB1016 | Pass | As enacted, makes various changes to the present law relative to the offense of communicating a threat concerning a school employee. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB1719 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a magistrate from considering a defendant's ability to pay when determining the amount of bail necessary to reasonably assure the appearance of the defendant while at the same time protecting the safety of the public. - Amends T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 869 |
| TN | HB2845 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Prevention of Drunk Driving Act." - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 55 and Title 57.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 961 |
| TN | HB2697 | Pass | As enacted, requires public charter schools to provide educators six work weeks of paid leave after the birth or stillbirth of the educator's child or after the educator's adoption of a newly placed minor child. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 875 |
| TN | HB2976 | Pass | Subject to local approval, creates the "West Tennessee Regional Utility Authority."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Pr. Ch. 56 |
| TN | HB1891 | Pass | As enacted, creates the "Protecting Children from Social Media Act." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 01/01/2025 |
| TN | HB2682 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes, until June 30, 2026, a retired member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system, or of a local retirement fund, to be reemployed in a position covered by the retirement system without the loss or suspension of the member...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2386 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a law enforcement officer to execute a search warrant for medical records or a test to determine the alcohol or drug content, or both, of a person's blood anywhere in the state, rather than in the county in which the warrant wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2790 | Pass | As enacted, establishes Class B misdemeanors for the tampering or otherwise making ineffective certain monitoring devices required as a condition of probation or parole; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 874 |
| TN | HB2031 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a person who suffers loss or injury as a result of a defendant intentionally obstructing a highway, street, or other place used for the passage of vehicles or conveyances to bring a cause of action against such person to recove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 958 |
| TN | HB2117 | Pass | As enacted, requires a political subdivision to provide a written attestation with the political subdivision's annual audit to the comptroller of the treasury certifying that the political subdivision has not sought or received a grant in intentional...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 877 |
| TN | HB2625 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes relative to a governing board of a public institution of higher education determining the institutional accrediting agencies or associations eligible to serve as an accreditor; prohibits an accrediting agency or association ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 868 |
| TN | HB1955 | Pass | As enacted, requires a person collecting a voter registration form submitted by an applicant during a voter registration drive to, within 15 calendar days of receipt of the form, deliver or mail the form to the county election commission in which the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 871 |
| TN | HB2088 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the military department to administer a critical skills retention bonus program to be used to award retention bonuses of up to $10,000 to enlisted service members in the Tennessee national guard; entitles certain state employee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 847 |
| TN | HB2348 | Pass | As enacted, establishes a Class E felony for an entity that is supported in whole or in part by public funds to knowingly provide meeting spaces or other forums, including electronic and print platforms, to certain groups or organizations for the pur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 872 |
| TN | HB0869 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to the law relative to confirmation of membership on the board of Regents for the State University and Community College System; the Tennessee Promise Scholarship Act of 2014; the Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grant; and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 925 |
| TN | HB2559 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a local board of education to contract for services with a nonprofit or for-profit entity for the operation and management of an adult high school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 960 |
| TN | HB2584 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits the department from charging a permit application fee to a local government entity for a general aquatic resource alteration permit for emergency infrastructure repair, or a general aquatic resource alteration permit for mainten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 930 |
| TN | HB2011 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to law relative to electronic medical records; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 47; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 931 |
| TN | HB1663 | Pass | As introduced, authorizes the death penalty as a punishment for rape of a child, aggravated rape of a child, or especially aggravated rape of a child. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Chapter 1062 of the Public Acts of 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 951 |
| TN | HB2165 | Pass | As enacted, requires a request made by a student to an employee of the student's LEA or public charter school for an accommodation to affirm the student's gender identity to be reported to a school administrator and to the student's parent; prohibits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 832 |
| TN | HB2460 | Pass | As enacted, expands the definition of "victim" for the purposes of restitution to include a reciprocal, as defined by current law, when the reciprocal has compensated a subscriber for loss incurred as a result of the offense to the extent that the re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 811 |
| TN | HB2619 | Pass | As enacted, generally prohibits the department from using state funds to administer hormone replacement therapy to state inmates incarcerated in a state penitentiary or a county jail or workhouse, or for sex reassignment surgery for state inmates inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 821 |
| TN | HB2611 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "The District Attorney General Second Opinion Act," which authorizes, in any investigation involving a human trafficking offense, an organized crime offense, or an offense classified as a Class A or B felony, in which a district at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 805 |
| TN | HB1799 | Pass | As enacted, requires an administrator of elections, if the administrator attends a training, seminar, conference, or other educational event related to elections and such event is outside of this state, to file a form prescribed by the coordinator of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 830 |
| TN | HB1059 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to present law regarding an intercollegiate athlete's name, image, or likeness. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 823 |
| TN | HJR1504 | Pass | Kim McCaster Cox
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR1027 | Pass | Jillian Ludwig
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB2155 | Pass | As enacted, names the law prohibiting an LEA from deducting dues from the wages of the LEA's employees for a professional employees' organization the "Michael Maren Paycheck Protection Act." - Amends TCA Section 49-2-123.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 770 |
| TN | HB2762 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act." - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6; Title 29; Title 38; Title 39; Title 45 and Title 47.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 773 |
| TN | HB2882 | Pass | As enacted, requires, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, each local education agency and public charter school to provide students with age-appropriate and grade-appropriate instruction on firearm safety. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024 |
| TN | HB1894 | Pass | As enacted, defines food that contains a vaccine or vaccine material as a drug for purposes of the Tennessee Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 53.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/22/2024 |
| TN | HB1909 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Laken Riley Act of 2024," which generally prohibits a public institution of higher education from prohibiting adults lawfully present on the institution's property from carrying a non-lethal weapon for purposes of self-defense...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2100 | Pass | As enacted, requires financial institutions and insurers to make determinations about the provision or denial of services based on certain analysis; prohibits financial institutions and insurers from denying or canceling services to a person, or othe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2435 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Baby Olivia Act," which requires a family life curriculum that directly or indirectly addresses human growth, human development, or human sexuality to include the presentation of a high-quality, computer-generated animation or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024 |
| TN | HB1883 | Pass | As enacted, establishes that generally an attorney or an agent designated to make healthcare decisions under a durable power of attorney for health care has a right to in-person visitation with the principal at a hospital where the principal is locat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 766 |
| TN | HB2773 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Cassie Wright Act," which makes changes to law relative to a parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian having access to certain medical information of their unemancipated minor. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 66 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/22/2024 |
| TN | HB1922 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to the procedure for surrendering custody of an unwanted infant without criminal liability. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 728 |
| TN | HB0465 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Representative Darren Jernigan Act," which requires, beginning on January 1, 2025, and each year thereafter, the department of revenue to verify that the owner of each disabled parking placard has not died; requires the depart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 726 |
